Word: blandes
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Like his landscapes, the nudes are deceptively bland. For most of his 57 years, Kitchens has relied on sweet, misty color contrasts rather than drawing, drama, or detail; he has made sweeping strokes and smears of color stand for space, shape, weight and air. His method, he says, is like "playing" a tune-playing one color off against another. Sometimes it jars; sometimes there is no harmony and I have to start afresh. But when it fits it's wonderful...
...Illinois wooing the downstate farmers, suddenly glanced back and saw his Chicago citadel in danger. Normally, Cook County Boss Jake Arvey could be expected to give him a fine 200,000 Democratic majority in the big city. But now, hanging lumpily on Lucas' political neck, was a bland, white-haired police captain named Daniel A. Gilbert...
...suave old former Secretary of State has a much younger wife who seeks her freedom-to marry (as he learns without her telling him) a Senator her own age. The Secretary's bland if not too convincing strategy is to make the Senator lose ground politically by being a bachelor, and then hurry him into a marriage-in-name-only with a seemingly plain and simple schoolteacher. In a trice, of course, the bride grows wildly attractive and wonderfully astute. This state of affairs, even when christened Affairs of State, can have but one outcome...
Wrong Time of Day. But the Kremlin (so many of the Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
...Church of England has learned an immense patience. It still needs to call on its reserves when dealing with its blatantly Communist-line "Red Dean" of Canterbury, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson. The Archbishop of Canterbury has publicly shaken his head many times over the Red Dean's bland blurts in favor of Communism and all things Russian. In London last week, at the Lord Mayor's dinner for Anglican Bishops, the Archbishop responded to a toast "to the clergy at home and overseas...